NGC 5513

NGC 5513

NGC 5513 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Boötes about 233 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 140,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,993 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
233 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
137k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
4,993 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 233 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 5513 as it looked roughly 233 million years ago. The photons left before that much of history had passed, and are only now reaching us. This distance is estimated from the galaxy's redshift, so the lookback time is approximate.

Nearest galaxies
IC 984Barred spiral10 million ly
apart
NGC 5518Elliptical11 million ly
apart
NGC 5490Elliptical12 million ly
apart
IC 1006Barred spiral18 million ly
apart
NGC 5548Lenticular20 million ly
apart
NGC 5559Barred spiral20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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